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America’s Family Therapist
Real talk about hard things, from a therapist and trusted leader.
Issy Kleiman, MA, LMFT, is a therapist, educator, entrepreneur, writer, podcast host, and speaker. Her work moves between clinical practice and public conversation, with experience in graduate teaching, supervision, and mental health leadership. Her biography and press materials are ready to download here.
In practice since 2003 · Licensed in Washington since 2008
Official bio
Issy Kleiman, MA, LMFT, is a therapist, educator, entrepreneur, writer, podcast host, and speaker. Her work moves between clinical practice and public conversation, with experience in graduate teaching, supervision, and mental health leadership. She has worked in mental health since 2003 and has been a licensed marriage and family therapist in Washington since 2008. From 2010 to 2012, she was an Associate Professor at Antioch University Seattle, teaching Family of Origin, Family Life Cycle, Applied Couples, and Case Consult. She is the Founder and Clinical Director of Counseling Services for Wellbeing, where she leads an integrated therapy and psychiatry practice and supervises clinicians. Issy hosts the Ask Izzy podcast and speaks with clinicians, teams, and public audiences about mental health, relationships, and the systems that shape care.
Her clinical experience includes individuals, couples, families, children and adolescents, with training in the Gottman Method, Emotionally Focused Therapy, and family systems. She speaks about affirming, culturally responsive care for LGBTQ+, BIPOC, and neurodivergent communities.
Issy also hosts the Ask Izzy podcast and consults with clinicians, teams, and organizations on mental health, relationships, and clinical practice.
Verification letters from the Washington State Department of Health and AAMFT are available on request.
Signature segment topics
Each topic works as a quote for a story, an interview segment, a podcast episode, a keynote, a workshop or a clinical training.
Why “I’m fine” rarely means fine.
A practical, warm segment for parents and caregivers on hearing what is underneath a teen’s shortest answer.
School pressure is normal. Suffering is not.
How to tell an adjustment from a problem, and what actually helps a student who is drowning.
How anxiety actually shows up in a teenager.
The cost of waiting lists, school and family collaboration, and everyday guidance for parents who are worried.
Most couples do not need to talk more. They need to talk differently.
Recurring conflict, the difference between solvable problems and enduring differences, and repair after a rupture.
The baby arrives, and so does a version of you that nobody prepared you for.
Ambivalence, identity change after birth, why mixed feelings are normal, and how families can tell ordinary adjustment from something that needs care.
Good therapy meets people as they are, not as a diagnosis.
What affirming care looks like in practice, masking and burnout, sensory and communication access, and what families can do right away.
What changes when your therapist and prescriber actually talk to each other.
How shared records and direct communication between providers can reduce the burden on clients to repeat their history.
The waiting list should not be the hardest part of getting help.
Same-week access, insurance navigation, telehealth across a large state, and what a practice can realistically do about the waitlist problem.
Who teaches a therapist how to think, not just what to do.
What it takes to train, supervise and retain good clinicians, and how clinical decision-making holds up in complex cases.
Why book Issy
Issy is at ease on air, quick with a well-timed one-liner, and speaks like a person, not a textbook.
She arrives prepared, takes producer notes well, and can fill a five-minute hit or a half-hour interview.
Every segment ends with practical steps viewers can try the same day.
She can pivot from a hard news cycle to a feel-good morning segment and tailor the conversation to your audience.
Issy hosts and produces
A podcast featuring conversations about grief, caregiving, parenting, and relationships, including questions sent in by listeners.
On TikTok
Short, warm mental health takes with a growing community of engaged followers.
Watch on TikTokSpeaking and expert commentary
Issy speaks and consults with clinicians, teams, organizations, and media outlets about the real-world questions shaping mental health care. Topics can be adapted for a keynote, training, facilitated discussion, clinical consultation, or press conversation.
Clinical decision-making, ethics, complex cases, and developing judgement without creating dependence on supervision.
Coordinating therapy and psychiatric care, communicating across disciplines, and keeping the person at the centre of treatment decisions.
Relationship patterns, new parenthood, ambivalence, and the changes that can reshape a partnership.
Practical approaches that take identity, context, communication, and power seriously.
Building a practice culture that supports sound care, consultation, and the clinicians doing the work.
Ask Izzy podcast
Ask Izzy follows conversations about illness, family changes, and questions without easy answers.
Listener questions and guests’ lived experiences shaped the first season, including conversations about ALS, friendship, caregiving, and parenting.
Issy hosts and produces the show herself, bringing her on-mic experience and care to difficult personal subjects.
Recent episodes
What it takes to move through something hard, and how change tends to arrive in small steps.
How people keep going when life does not cooperate, and what support makes that possible.
The shape of grief over time, the things people are afraid to say, and how to stay present with someone who is grieving.
Supporting a loved one through serious illness, including Issy’s experience alongside her best friend through ALS.
The daily realities of raising children, behaviour that is really communication, and keeping a relationship intact while doing it.
Real questions sent in by listeners, answered honestly and shaped into the episodes themselves.
Listener questions
Listeners can send a question for consideration through the show’s fan-mail page. Questions may be considered for a future season.
Send a question through the Ask Izzy fan-mail page.
podcast question
Share your question in as much or as little detail as you like. Nothing here is a substitute for therapy or medical advice.
Press kit
Biography, verified credentials, suggested topics, media appearances, booking and contact details, and photograph guidance in a single PDF you can forward to an editor, producer or event organizer.
Open the press kit directly if the download doesn’t start.
Ask for any of these with your inquiry and they are sent the same day.
High-resolution headshots
Four photographs of Issy Kleiman, MA, LMFT, each 2048 pixels wide and ready for print or broadcast. Publish with credit to Issy Kleiman, MA, LMFT. Please do not crop, retouch or alter the images.
Media contact
Media contactIssy Kleiman, Founder & Clinical Director
izzy@counselingwellbeing.com
(206) 242-8211
For therapy intake, insurance and the wider provider team, visit counselingwellbeing.com.
media inquiry
Please include your outlet or organization, your deadline or event date, and what you need from Issy. Journalists, producers and event organizers are welcome to email or call directly instead.
